YSaC, Vol. 308: Let me tell ya about the birds and the …

selling ford truck – $1200

$1200 obo this has been a good truck for me but i have to sell it because i cant ever get to it with all of the bees around it they have been in and around it for almost 2 months now and i havent been able to get near 5 feet or else i get stung and im sick of it i still have welts from months ago stingings and i cant even get to work because i cant get to my truck so i have to sell it test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees

Sara and Geoff both sent this one in. Sara points out that apparently bee stings cause a lack of punctuation.

I really … just … wow. If anyone has always wanted a truck that has had thousands of bees living in it for months, here’s your opportunity.

*shudder* As someone with bad apiphobia (fear of bees) that pictue will probably give me nightmares. I also wonder why he didn’t bother to talk up any of the good points about the truck. “Low mileage. New tires. CD changer,” or whatever. He seems more concerened with convincing us to never, ever go near the thing. Great sales pitch!

This is scary! It reminds me of a scene from the movie “The Secretary” in which one of the characters is found dead in their car and upon inspection a bee is seen crawling out of his mouth…totally creepy! For me this would never work however if you like raw honey this might be the truck for you!

My husband hauls beehives commercially on a flatbed semi truck (brings them to farms, etc for pollenation)….He’s got a bee-suit & he’s quite used to his own truck looking worse than that pickup. Given that fact, he thinks $1200 isn’t a bad deal for a pickup truck….LOL he says tell him where it’s at and he’ll show up in his bee suit for a test drive

My grandfather was a beekeeper, and he often would go out to other people’s properties and “capture” their swarms. They are just looking for somewhere to live! This guy and his truck… LOL! Just call a bee person already!!

No it’s not. Containing a swarm of bees is a LOT of work. Yes, you get the bees (and the resulting products)… but, they may die just as soon as you get them situated in a hive. VERY few beekeepers will take care of your swarm for free!

Ok, so instead of calling a beekeeper or exterminator and paying a couple bucks, he would rather not go to work, risk getting fired, and lose so much money that he has to sell his truck?!!! That’s messed up.

My boyfriend had an old Honda that he wasn’t using and he left it out front in his condo complex. It sort of rotted there and eventually wasps built nests in it. Eventually the home owners’ association said he had to move it because the wasps were a hazard. He got around the wasp situation by donating the car to charity. They didn’t care about the wasps. I think he warned them ahead of time before they picked it up. I think. He got the tax write off, anyway.

I’m curious how this will help his work situation. On the one hand, no longer having a vehicle too bee-infested to drive. On the other hand, no vehicle at all.

This is kind of off topic but a co-worker at an old job once got suckered into “car-pooling” with another office mate who lived near him. This plan immediately fizzled when he went to pick her up one morning and eventually gave up when she never appeared. She showed up at work later that day and sent him a note saying she had “temporarily gone blind” and thus wasn’t able to dial his number correctly (or find the front door I guess.) I thought that was the greatest excuse ever. I stand corrected and salute you, too many bees.

Um…did no one realize..
He said he wouldn’t test drive it with whoever comes to get it, because there’s too many bees.
All it would take is a suit and a can of raid, and you’d have yourself a free truck.

In fact, she got it perfectly right: if the owner is not going to be with you on the test ride, there is nothing keeping you from getting rid of the bees and taking the car on a very, very long test ride. Several years long, probably.

This happened to me once. I turned on my hose and sprayed them off from 25 feet away. Any bees that came at me I shot down with the spray jet. All the bees were washed up in five minutes. What’s the problem?

I am terrified of bees, so this post made me do that “something is crawling on my back” dance for about ten minutes, and every time I think of that picture it makes me freak out again… I would do something entirely like screaming like a little girl and running away from that house and never returning, if this was in fact the sight that was outside of my window every day… Blech…